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  • ‘We need to remain in UNHRC’
    Although the USA has withdrawn from the United Nations Human Rights Council,we need to remain in it and fight for our cause instead of coming out and getting isolated, UNP National Organiser and...
  • Cabinet Decisions
     Grant and Implementation Agreement between Millennium Challenge Corporation and Sri LankaThe Cabinet of Ministers considered the cabinet memorandum presented by Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime...
  • JO to stand against government as United People’s Front
    The Joint Opposition (JO) in Parliament, would function as the United People’s Front in future, Parliamentarian Dullas Alahapperuma said.Addressing a media briefing organised by the JO at the N. M....
  • Northern Province Governor Reginald Cooray, State Minister Piyasena Gamage, Deputy Minister Nishantha Mutuhettigamage and Southern Province Chief Minister Shan Wijayalal De Silva, at the meeting. Picture by Mahinda P. Liyanage, Galle Central Special Corr.
    SLFP has lost its identity - NP Governor
    For the first time in its 65-year-long history, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) faces political turmoil and the obligation of all party members is to restore the party to the position it...
  • Rajapaksa family conflicts spilling into JO ranks - Nalin
    Conflicts within the Rajapaksa family regarding the entry of former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa into the political sphere has now spilled into Joint Opposition ranks as well, Law and Order...
  • Two new state ministers take oaths
    Two new state ministers took oaths yesterday before President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat.Minister Lucky Jayawardene was appointed as the Urban Development and Water Supply...
  • Vijayakala may lose MP post: Navin
    Plantation Industries Minister Navin Dissanayake said Parliamentarian Vijayakala Maheswaran may lose her MP post once the disciplinary inquiry on her reaches its conclusion. Speaking to the Daily...
  • UNP will field PM as Presidential candidate: Field Marshal Fonseka
    The UNP will field Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as its candidate for the next Presidential election. The final decision as to whether he will take up the challenge or he has any contrary view...
  • Tense situation at Horana RDC meeting
    A tense situation erupted at Horana Regional Development Committee (RDC) meeting when Parliamentarian Vidura Wickremanayake arrived with a group of Pradeshiya Sabha members .He asked the Co-Chairmen...
  • Minister Chandrani Bandara Jayasinghe addressing the gathering. Picture by Priyan de Silva.
    'Female councillors should empower women'
    Women and Child Affairs Minister Chandrani Bandara Jayasinghe, addressing the 243 female councillors elected to local government institutions in the Southern Province, last Friday (6), said, “All...
  • A State Leader should have the experience of at least a PS member - Welgama
    The person whom we select as the State Leader should have at least been a Pradeshiya Sabha Member before, Joint Opposition MP Kumara Welgama said.Taking part in the adjournment debate in Parliament...
  • Parliament
    Musthapha calls for Round-Table Conference: To discuss pros and cons of new electoral systemLocal Government and Provincial Councils Minister Faiszer Musthapha, expressing his strong opposition...